<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16510]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10712]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is not a good counselor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is not a good counselor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum  Rara ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum  Rara juventus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes unseen; we only see it go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes unseen; we only see it go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. They become responsive to grandiose schemes, and will display unequaled steadfastness, formidable energies and a special fitness in the performance of tasks which would stump superior people. It seems paradoxical that defeat in dealing with the possible should embolden people to attempt the impossible, but a familiarity with the mentality of the weak reveals that what seems a path of daring is actually an easy way out: It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings. For when we fail in attaining the impossible we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27763]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The youth hunt gives a kid a chance before the adults clean up. Its cool my dad takes us out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The youth hunt gives a kid a chance before the adults clean up. Its cool my dad takes us out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As she hearsthe confessionsof all riversthose on the shorehear the sea..accepting allshe calls no thingheresy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4014]]></link><description><![CDATA[As she hearsthe confessionsof all riversthose on the shorehear the sea..accepting allshe calls no thingheresy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm thrilled. I personally hope that this is just the tip of the iceberg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm thrilled. I personally hope that this is just the tip of the iceberg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her pretty feet Like snails did creep  A little out, and then,   As if they played at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her pretty feet Like snails did creep  A little out, and then,   As if they played at bo-peep    Did soon draw in agen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44515]]></link><description><![CDATA[In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The walls are the publishers of the poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The walls are the publishers of the poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sends cold according to Cloathes. [God sends cold according to clothes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49275]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sends cold according to Cloathes. [God sends cold according to clothes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From little spark may burst a mighty flame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54045]]></link><description><![CDATA[From little spark may burst a mighty flame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are a whole different team, ... with Brodie running the show than they were a year ago. When they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30342]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are a whole different team, ... with Brodie running the show than they were a year ago. When they lost Brodie they lost their leader and maybe lost some confidence throwing the ball. But obviously this year they've opened their offense up. They are taking their shots deep. Their receivers, I was impressed with them last year as a great group freshmen and now this year they've all made plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have storm recovery teams ... leaving in the next day or so. The issue is places for them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have storm recovery teams ... leaving in the next day or so. The issue is places for them to stay and road closures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not really as good as I should have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not really as good as I should have been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And O the buttercups! that field O' the cloth of gold, when pennons swam--  Where France set up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5144]]></link><description><![CDATA[And O the buttercups! that field O' the cloth of gold, when pennons swam--  Where France set up his lilied shield,   His oriflamb,    And Henry's lion-standard rolled:     What was it to their matchless sheen,      Their million million drops of gold       Among the green!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going for a state title. The record is just a bonus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going for a state title. The record is just a bonus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs  To load the May-wind's restless wings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2940]]></link><description><![CDATA[What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs  To load the May-wind's restless wings,   When, from the orchard-row, he pours    Its fragrance through our open doors;     A world of blossoms for the bee,      Flowers for the sick girl's silent room,       For the glad infant sprigs of bloom,        We plant with the apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so surprised. I was hoping (he'd propose) sometime in the future, but not in February. I had just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so surprised. I was hoping (he'd propose) sometime in the future, but not in February. I had just moved a few months ago, so I wasn't thinking he'd propose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51255]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge project like the Bay Bridge retrofit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/883]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/883</guid></item></channel></rss>